Culture, a driver of urban regeneration and social cohesion

Lacittàintorno is the Cariplo Foundation‘s programme which, since 2017, has involved the inhabitants of fragile urban contexts in the reactivation and re-signification of unused or degraded spaces in order to improve the quality of life and create “new city geographies”. The current emergency has highlighted the criticality of the traditional development model, exacerbating social fractures within ...

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Iginio Rossi, Alessandro Bruni, INU – URBIT in partnership with PREDIF – State representation platform for people with physical disabilities, Spain The insufficient accessibility for all of our cities is worsening further as a result of the barriers produced by climate change that make, with abnormal temperatures and uncomfortable and tragic weather conditions, the development ...

NEW URBAN AND HOUSING PARADIGMS FOR POST-PANDEMIC CITIES

Gianni Biagi, Director of URBIT The great global pandemic crisis caused by Covid19 has opened, perhaps rather forced to open, a reflection on the theme of how contemporary cities have been designed and built. A reflection that affects the foundations of the disciplines that are interested in cities and building places for human life. The ...

FOOD PERSPECTIVE

Matelda Reho, Giulia Lucertini, Iuav University of Venice The situation created in the face of the COVID 19 emergency has given new acceleration to the debate on food policy, which had already made significant progress in recent years. The pandemic has highlighted with greater force, on the one hand, how much the characteristics of the ...